#explanation

Cuz when I'm done drawing they also look scribbly and unfinished.

Also thank you sooo much for the art.

It's so beautiful and well done 24/7.

Gah I wish i was on my phone to respond to this, but case in point-

It might look like a lot, but i render my art fairly simply; in a lot of instances, it's just simple cell shading with multiply airbrush and faint subsurface scattering

this chuuya art for instance only has simple cell shading, what makes the image pop however is the use of a lowered-opacity lensblur layer on top of it

otherwise, my art only has 3 layers of shading max

There are exceptions, however because sometimes I dont render with cell shading, for example, with femchuu

i dont actually know what i was doing, but instead of doing lineart, I just gave up and rendered straight away on TOP of the sketch and just leading to this; overall pretty tiring process, but pretty

Anyways, I do have a dedicated video on yt explaining how I render (Although a bit outdated, because my rendering has simplified through the months and my artstyle has "matured" or something idk you can tell the difference, it's still useful)

i figured theres no better person to ask than person with “I LOVE GASTER” written on their blog

Im. So glad someone finally asked about this. ghegehegVEHEH

Ok so, pirate gaster, what the hell is that?

For those that aren't. Well chronically online like some big chunk of the fandom, might have just woken up one day and went to Tumblr, twitter or Reddit and got jumpscared by . Fucking pirate Gaster yeah IKNOW. It sounds ridiculous.

But! I personally believe it can get to be a *slightly* solid theory, even though I also believe it's not even truly plausible

I will try to explain it as best as I can, but if you prefer to read something well. A completely BETTER explanation there's a reddit post that explains it very well with the same proof that I'm trying to cite here!!

This comes from a mixture of various, various deltarune theories:

Water is darkness -> texture that appears in background of goner maker is an edited image of the ocean/water, not to mention the water connection extends to the dark fountains.

So if Gaster has or had any connection with creating dark, and we have already the association that water is darkness, then Gaster fell onto the water, which means he's now underwater

Onion also talks about a song coming from the water, and that will tell us a secret soon, of course we're not supposed to know that, which is why later in chapter 5, it's heavily implied (if not it's quite literal) that onion got KILLED and cooked into food

Which leads us to the OTHER theory

Normal npc -> gaster's parrot (I think that's the name????)

So, the one that POSSIBLY. killed onion is normalNpc (or the bird/parrot guy), that in the festival sells us onion to try for only 2G, then later changing the statement to only for free. Normal npc is mentioning the currency that appears in Undertale, so if Gaster is from Undertale, normal npc only repeats what Gaster tells them to say.

Roulxs kaard is Gaster's self insert character:

The title is pretty self explanatory, but basically this theory implies that Gaster is self inserting in deltarune with roulxs kaard as his self insert sona. With proof being his design (if you invert roulxs kaard his face looks very similar to Gaster), sharing traits such as literally, speaking with hands (this can be seen in chapter 3), also with roulxs kaard appearing as a pirate in chapter 2, while riding what appears at the start a gray boat. Or maybe... a goner vessel? (Essi if you see this yes I stole this line from you #sorry) and interfering with the deltarune world by seeking constant attention and approval, maybe as a way to be seen after his disappearance and shattering across time and space

Now, mix all that, and also add the fact that the fandom goes completely crazy after a new chapter release, and you get pirate gaster. Wow.

Explanation part 1

(as told by someone who hasn't actually watched in a while who's memory is shoddy at best)

okay introducing Tom Paris

began the series as a fuckboy swagger cool guy, but he's written by the kind of people who like star trek, so he's really into like. billiards and classic cars

They were all, what do cool people like? This stuff, right??

life is tough because his dad is an admiral and he can never measure up and he was like "fuck you, dad" and joined the rebels but got rumbled like 3 weeks in and put in a work prison until he was snagged to fly this test ship

this is all backstory, btw

but it does kind of set up the premise of the episode - they've been all alone in the delta quadrant for over 2 years, wondering how to get home, they've designed a few new shuttles, and Tom gets this idea - he bets he can Break the Warp 10 barrier

this is impossible, people say - 9.9 is as fast as you can go. 10 would be like, what, instant transport?

but he becomes obsessed with this idea (as obsessed as you can get in an episodic format where they never revisit anything, anyway, but people talk about how he hasn't been sleeping or anything). He bets he can do it

and you know what? HE DOES

HISTORY IS MADE

if they can modify the entire ship to accommodate, they could be home instantly instead of in 70+ years!!

except...there are side effects

suddenly he's allergic to water

his body stops processing oxygen

his cells start degrading

He seems fine

he becomes delirious and rambles (and at one point is like PEPPERONI PIZZA what I WOULDN'T GIVE so we're probably eating pizza tonight)

he's like look. can you at least tell my dad - I did it? I accomplished something?

and then he DIES

but then...during the night? his body starts moving again

Again, seems totally fine

he has two hearts

he's not devolving! he's EVOLVING, THIS IS THE NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION BABY (he insists)

Ah, yes, the phase in the life cycle that comes after egg, infant, child, adult, and then - naturally - Timelord

somewhere around here his tongue falls out?

and here's the thing, up until now I maintain it has been a good, maybe even great Star Trek episode

buuuuuuuut the last ten minutes get craycray

he looks like this

he can't talk

No real loss, surely

he kidnaps the captain

now it's like a freaking king kong monster movie or something?

Imagining holding her in his hands while he climbs the empire state building

by the time the crew finds them, a bit later?

(and by a bit I mean I think it's a couple months)

She's also Timelord Toad? Oh, yup, of course, because LOVE

oh AND

because LOVE

Babies?!?

YUP

the first officer is like "I don't know how I'm going to enter this into the log"

cut to the last two minutes where we're back in medbay, the captain and tom paris are fine, the doctor magically synthesized something to fix them, they left the lizard babies on the planet and they're never ever mentioned again

that episode won an emmy, by the way

(for makeup, but still)

Wait THE FUCK

YUP

They brought them BACK And abandoned their CHILDREN

YUP

That was their garden of eden!!! They were living the dream!! Oh my gods they fell in love and had a family and lived as an entirely new phase of creation and then just had to COME BACK AND BE THEMSELVES

extra fun dynamics here - Tom Paris was originally written as like, playboy arm candy implied fuck buddy for the captain? but then they cast a first officer that looks at her like this

and their chemistry was off the charts, so the tom paris thing was abandoned

Because, absolutely. Whatever this is. That's correct.

[I then explained the entire episode of Resolutions]

Oh that Might actually make me cry

that stranded episode hasn't happened yet, but the fans like to joke that the first officer left the babies on the planet out of jealousy

also there's a bit at the end where Tom is like. uh. sorry about that captain. I don't really remember what happened but uh. sorry about coming on to you and she's like "psh we don't remember. how do you know I wasn't the one who came on to YOU"

Well THAT'S an abuse of power, but. Good for her.

but anyway it's the anniversary of the threshold episode!

so tumblr is having a holiday about it

Nothing more sacred, truly